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Introductory lectures to the miniconference “Exploring Non-Reduction and Levels of Reality”Basarab Nicolescu, The Idea of Levels of Reality and its Relevance for Non-Reduction and PersonhoodRoy Clouser, The Nature & Ground of Religious Belief

1st Session: Non Reduction and the Human Sciences (Monday)James Skillen, Why Politics Can't Be Reduced to Power, Behavior, Choice, or LawGarcia Sienra: A Non-reductionist Approach to EconomicsEgbert Schuurman, The Ethics of Responsibility as a Comprehensive Approach

2nd Session, Non-reduction, Levels and Transdisciplinarity (Monday)John van Breda and Mark Swilling, On the Importance of the Non-separability of Discontinuity and Continuity of the Different Levels of RealityCecilia Dockendorff, The Long Way from Non-reductionism to TransdisciplinarityRenata T. S. Lemos, Levels of Convergence

3rd Session, Understanding Levels (Tuesday)William A. Matthews, Redefining Science in an Emergentist World ViewJean Staune, Is the Brain an Ipod or a Radio?Carlo Scognamiglio, Human Being and Non-reductionist Conceptions of Determination

4th Session, Matter and life (Tuesday)Danie Strauss, The Significance of Non-reduction for Math & PhysicsRiccardo Manzotti, The Relational Nature of the Physical World as a Foundation for the Conscious MindIngolf Schmid-Tannwald, Fertilisation